Episode 101 - Joni Lynn Gunter
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.4 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Russell Tillis was described by residents of Bowden Circle East in Jacksonville Florida, as “the neighbor from hell.” Since taking over his parent's already dilapidated home, Russell set to work transforming the property into a ramshackle fortress, guarded with a makeshift privacy fence lined with razor blades and hidden booby-traps throughout his yard.
In February 2016, police arrived at his property with shovels and a hand-drawn map. They were there to unearth the dismembered skeletal remains of a missing young woman.
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| 0:00.0 | The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds |
| 0:05.0 | of Madness podcast. |
| 0:06.8 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:36.8 | As television crews descended on 3551 bound in Circle East in Jacksonville, Florida, |
| 0:44.5 | a forensic team was already underway, unloading shovels, dirt zifters, and a grand penetrating |
| 0:50.6 | radar system. |
| 0:52.2 | It was February 2016 and was in the first time, commotion from the property had drawn |
| 0:57.9 | neighbors out into the street. |
| 1:00.2 | Out of sight, behind a Jerry-Rigged Privacy Fence, investigators were about to unearth |
| 1:05.7 | the skeletal remains of a young woman who hadn't been seen in a year. |
| 1:10.5 | But to police, there were only two mysteries surrounding the discovery, the victim's |
| 1:15.6 | name, and the exact cause of death. |
| 1:19.0 | Everything else about the murder detectives believed they already knew, because the murderer |
| 1:24.1 | had confessed and drawn them a map to the precise location of the remains. |
| 1:30.3 | For me now, as we take a look into a bizarre case that finally came to a conclusion after |
| 1:36.0 | years of delays in the judicial system, you'll learn how a disturbed man terrorized neighborhood, |
| 1:43.1 | and how the persistence of local residents finally helped to take him down, bringing an end |
| 1:48.8 | to a home they referred to as Jacksonville's very own House of Horrors. |
| 2:00.0 | Jacksonville, Florida, is the most populous city in the state, with nearly one million |
| 2:04.6 | residents enjoying perpetual sunshine beside the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 2:09.1 | The first coast, as the area is known, is the very definition of urban sprawl. |
| 2:14.5 | In the years following World War II, thousands of families flocked to the area where rows |
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